Bezos may be getting married in Venice, but Alexa stays loyal to Rome. Amazon celebrates 15 years of operations in Italy with a special tribute to the capital: “Echo Dot Limited Edition Rome”, the first European limited edition Echo device. The project is signed by illustrator Ale Giorgini, known to Domus readers for designing the header of the Mod...
READ MOREIf your budget can’t quite stretch to the stunning shoreline of the Amalfi coast this summer, fear not, as an exhilarating new Prime Video crime drama will transport you to one of Italy’s most beautiful settings instead. Hotel Costiera is what we're calling the new Death In Paradise - and it's set to seriously shake up your summer. The drama centre...
READ MOREScheduled for a 2025 release, Prime Video’s “Costiera” stars Jesse Williams (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as an ex-marine who takes up residence in Italy. Filmed last year in Positano and along the Amalfi Coast, the action-drama features an American lead, but as Variety reported, Prime Video’s head of originals for Southern Europe, Nicole Morganti, says it’s...
READ MOREPizza is more than just food. It’s a journey measured in flavors, flour, and the hands that have shaped it for generations. Once a humble neighborhood staple, pizza has become a global icon, carrying with it not just dough, but stories, identities, and a deep cultural exchange. This is the essence of Storie di Pizza – The American Dream, the second...
READ MOREThe sixty-minute film, Botticelli’s Primavera (now available on Ideas Roadshow’s App for TV, tablet & phone and VOD and Amazon Prime) opens like a ceremonial lecture on the occasion of an exhibition opening or the start of an academic symposium: a familiar set piece in museums and art historical institutions, delivered by a well-known expert on a m...
READ MOREThe stunning painting is beautifully presented in this documentary, but the flood of references to other works of art and quotations from classical and Renaissance writers might make the film a bit slow going for someone with no background at all in Renaissance cultural history. The sixty-minute film, Botticelli’s Primavera (now available on Ideas...
READ MORENadia Caterina Munno’s new cooking and travel show, named after her social media handle, ‘The Pasta Queen,’ recently took fans throughout Italy. In her Instagram video announcing the show, Munno said, “Come on a journey with me through Italy, and I will teach you how to cook like a real Italian.” All 13 episodes were set to debut exclusively on Pri...
READ MOREAmazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to invest €1.2 billion ($1.3bn) in expanding its data center business in Italy. The investment will span over the next five years, and will be used to expand AWS' data center operations in Milan, reports Reuters. According to AWS, the $1.3bn investment announced on November 7 would generate up to 5,500 jobs thr...
READ MOREI’m going to keep beating this drum until I’m blue in the face. Prime Video’s big-budget Citadel spy series that reportedly cost $300 million may have flopped with critics as well as fans when it hit the streamer back in 2023, but the glossy, futuristic franchise is nevertheless moving forward with multiple international spinoffs, including the Ita...
READ MOREAmazon is betting big on artificial intelligence. After the first $1.75 billion, Big Tech is betting again on Anthropic, a company owned by the ItalianAmerican twins Daniela and Dario Amodei, investing another $2.5 billion. Anthropic's artificial intelligence is called "Claude" and has made the Amodei twins world-renowned: it is considered by many...
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